Wellsville is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,006 people and just one neighborhood, Wellsville is the 356th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wellsville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wellsville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellsville who work in sales jobs (14.67%), office and administrative support (10.54%), and maintenance occupations (10.33%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wellsville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wellsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wellsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wellsville may be for you.
Wellsville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Wellsville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.92% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wellsville in 2022 was $19,455, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,820 for a family of four. However, Wellsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wellsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wellsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wellsville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wellsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 16 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wellsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Wellsville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.